Historical Kingdoms and Tidbits

Fallen Kingdom of Daren:
A fierce northern kingdom, predating krysmark, but similar. Much of their success came from them actually enslaving the gnomish peoples in the North. However the gnomes accidentally rose up and overthrew the Darenians in what the gnomes refer to as the Accidental Explosive Liberation, which was basically a massive explosion that completely leveled the capitol of Daren, the gnomes took the blame, but when the Darenians moved against them, their new Capitol City also exploded. This was because the gnomish slaves had begun experimenting into the creation of high explosives. The gnomes tell this story often, but mainly because it lead to their invention of the Combustion Engine and also Dynamite. The Daren Crater is the landmass in Fraulheim where the capitol once stood.

 

Ko’shet, Bel’son and Lai’dau:
These were three dynasties that once ruled Kentar, before it was called such. Ko’shet inhabited the southwest, Bel’son the north coast, and Lai’dau the southwest. The heartlands of Ko’shet were once incredibly fertile, but for some sort of reason it became almost all desert, and without farmland, and with Bel’son pushing at their borders, the Ko’shet surrendered their arable lands to Bel’son. There are still ruins of once great cities that poke out of the shifting sands of the southwest desert. Also magic and stuff.

The Kentar empire started as a rebellion of the peoples in the North-West

The First Great Elven Kingdom of Alustra.
Filled the power vacuum left by the Angels leaving, but they still had saved tomes written by the great Elderin magic users. Great Kingdom, lots of magic, spread over much of middle Torlan for some time, as well as the North-west coast of Kentar. They messed with magic, causing a lot of the islands to actually slide into the sea, the Far West of Kentar to become wasteland.

The Elven Exodus
After the Year of Troubles, much of the Torlani mainland that the elves once held had become uninhabitable. The elves migrated to the islands in the west, where they grew in their abilities as sea-faring folk. Not sure the nitty-gritty, but most of the elven magic user were publicly executed for the Year of Troubles, and the great libraries of magic were burned. Some managed to escape to Kentar, where they used the same terra-forming magic to create a sort of large oasis, and began to transform their lands from a desert to more of a serengetti plain kinda vibe.

The rest of the elves lived on the island and didn’t really do all that much.

Vehn’saaz:
One mage went down with an island and created an underwater city full of automatons animated by magic. This also leads out into the underdark and was the genesis of the Drow.